CURRENTLY

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE & PROJECT LEAD AT THE MIT SENSEABLE CITY LAB

ABOUT

Newsha Ghaeli is exploring the future of cities through the transformative power of technology. She is a Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Project Lead at the Senseable City Laboratory. Her work investigates the creative application of sensors in urban systems to build responsive, resilient, and efficient cities.

Newsha has collaborated on work with the United Nations Climate Change Summit, the United States Department of Energy, and consulted for the King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy (KA-CARE) and the American Samoan government on tsunami resilient communities. In 2015, Newsha was selected by the World Economic Forum as a Global Shaper: a group of leaders under the age of 30 charged with catalyzing social change in their communities.

Newsha is currently leading Underworlds, a project investigating the urban microbiome.